How to Include Family Member

William Bell 0 Reputation points
2026-10-06T22:39:57.71+00:00

How does a family member use my Microsoft 360 account?

Microsoft 365 and Office | Subscription, account, billing | For home | Windows
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  1. Marcin Policht 109.9K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2026-10-06T22:42:03.32+00:00

    All steps are provided at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/accounts-billing/subscriptions/share-your-microsoft-365-subscription

    How to share your Microsoft 365 Family or Microsoft 365 Premium subscription

    Go to your Microsoft 365 Services & subscriptions sharing page at account.microsoft.com/services/office/sharing

    Sign in

    Select Share.

    Note

    • If you don't see the Start sharing button, you may not be the owner of the Microsoft 365 Family or Microsoft 365 Premium subscription. If you're using a Microsoft 365 subscription that someone else shared with you, or if you have another type of Microsoft 365 subscription, you can't share your subscription with other people.
    • If the person you want to share your Microsoft 365 Family or Microsoft 365 Premium subscription with is not yet in your family group, send them an email invitation or link to join your family group. If they are already in another family group, they will need to leave it to join yours.

    Choose how you'd like to share,

    Select Email invite then enter their email and select Invite.

    Select Create link then select Copy link. You can then paste the link in an email, text, or other message and send it to those you want to share with.

    Note

    • When you share your subscription with someone, they get an email from Microsoft telling them that you've shared your Microsoft 365 Family or Microsoft 365 Premium subscription with them.
    • Each person you've shared with will need to select Get started in the email they receive to go to their Microsoft Family Safety site. If they don't have a Microsoft account, they'll be prompted to create one in order to move on.
    • They should then select Join now to accept the invitation to join your family group before they can access the benefits of your Microsoft 365 Family or Microsoft 365 Premium subscription.
    • If you need to send an invitation again, find their name, and choose Resend invite.

    They will need to accept your invitation within 48 hours. During this time, you will see "Pending invite" in your Microsoft 365 subscriptions dashboard.

    Note

    Once you have shared, they can select the Install Microsoft 365 on all your devices option on their account dashboard to install Microsoft 365 and access their OneDrive storage.

    Troubleshooting

    Troubleshoot "It looks like you're already in a family group" error message

    Sharing is only possible if the invitee joins the subscription owners' family group. If the invitee is already in another family group, they will need to leave it to join the subscription owners' family group.

    Once the invitee has joined the family group, then the subscription owner can share the Microsoft 365 Family or Microsoft 365 Premium benefits.


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    hth

    Marcin

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  2. AI answer

    2026-10-06T22:40:12.7533333+00:00

    To let a family member use Microsoft 365 Family, share the subscription with that person and have them accept the invitation with their own Microsoft account.

    1. Sign in to the Microsoft account Sharing page using the same Microsoft account that owns the Microsoft 365 Family subscription.
    2. On the Sharing tab, select Start sharing.
    3. Choose one of these options:
      • Invite via email: enter the family member’s email address and select Invite.
      • Invite via link: copy the link and send it by message.
    4. The family member accepts the invitation by signing in with their own Microsoft account.
    5. After accepting, they can sign in to Microsoft 365 apps with their own account to use the shared subscription benefits.

    Microsoft 365 Family can be shared with up to five other people in the household at no extra cost.

    If the family member is also being added to a Microsoft family group, a family organizer can sign in at https://account.microsoft.com/family, select Add a family member, choose Member or Organizer, and send the invitation. The invited person joins by accepting the email invitation.


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